On Saturday, May 3, 2025 2:38:25 AM Central Daylight Time deepika Sharma wrote: > The change to replace Redis with Valkey is primarily motivated by licensing > and community support concerns. Redis recently moved to a more restrictive > source-available license (RSAL), which has implications for open-source use > and integration into certain ecosystems. In contrast, Valkey is a > community-driven fork of Redis that remains under the permissive BSD > 3-Clause License, ensuring continued openness and broad compatibility. > Functionally, Valkey is a drop-in replacement for Redis and maintains full > protocol and data format compatibility, making the migration relatively low > risk. It is backed by many of the same contributors and aims to preserve > Redis’s performance and reliability, while encouraging broader > collaboration under a truly open license. > This change positions our stack to remain open-source friendly and avoids > future licensing uncertainty, without sacrificing performance or > functionality. > https://www.travell.co/ The redis folks have recently moved away from their source-available license (RSAL) in favor of AGPLv3[1] for Redis 8. Just wanted to point this out. I don't think it should change our strategy though. We should move forward with Valkey. [1] - https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ -- Robby Callicotte -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
